This scene from COVID Dystopia has simple animation of the hand and skull rotating a bit. Volumax was used to make the face as dimensional as possible as the camera track top the right. I don’t see any need to add any other animation to the scene. The San Francisco Film Festival rejected the film yesterday. The amount of rejection this film gets is soul crushing, and yet when it screens at selected festivals it keep winning awards. This is a film that people ether love or hate. Unfortunately it inspires far more hate since the message contradicts the nations desire to forget and deny the existence of COVID. Just mentioning the word can cause anger from minimizers.
To counter the soul crushing rejection, I always submit the film to another festival on the day it is rejected. The fast and furious pace of the imagery might not sway minimizers, but it might cause a couple of people to wake up for a moment.
I booked a flight to Cleveland yesterday and have an Air B&B booked. I will be unpacking my studio the first week of April and then immediately flying off to the Midwest. At this point in my life, I need to consider that I could live anywhere, so leaving Orlando is a possibility. As I travel the world following the screening of COVID Dystopia in Film Festivals I will remain open to the possibility of moving anywhere. I discovered an artist from NYC who moved to Berlin and now documents the cabaret scene there. I wish I had known about this artist before I traveled to East Berlin for the Berlin Shorts Film Festival, I would have tried to visit the artist’s studio. Berlin was rainy and cold the entire time I was there so I am not considering that as a possible move.